03/05/2024
A beautiful reflection by Oriana LU on our complicated relation with feminist funding for Resurjs latest reflection on feminist financing:
"I share my reflections asking to be read from there, at a point of tension between feminism (with our ideal world) and the real world in which we develop, which is capitalist and patriarchal, and therefore, our bodies, our (own) subconscious, and our collective subconscious are inevitably contaminated by it. We grew up and live in a world that through racism, classism, and colonialism with its eurocentrism and gringuismo1, has filled us with insecurities, resentments, and wounds that are systemic2."
It is so true :) At so many levels, we are introspecting and yet we keep marching!
Now, a woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. This may sound paradoxical, but is, nevertheless, only too true.Β β Emma Goldman, 1911, the Tragedy of Womanβs Emancipation. I am grateful for this call from RESURJ to write...